Should I stop working out my leg muscles 2 years prior to my limb lengthening?

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I'm planning to get my limb lengthening surgery with either Dr Paley or Live life taller in 2024, I hit legs sessions 2 times every week at the gym and I have quite big quads, Should I stop working them out to minimize the muscles in my legs? so that they don't have to dig deeper into my muscles to reach my bones which would cause more pain to me post surgery and more effort for surgeons to perform the surgery

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Yes.

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Yes definitely. You will have a hard time stretching those muscles if you go in with a bodybuilder physique

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Thank you.

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Yes

If I could do it over again, I would stretch more (stretching your legs is your new leg day) and then also replace some of my upper body workout with the wheelchair/walker/crutch/transfers etc exercises/proper technique that cyborg4life and some other LLers have on their youtube channels. Just imagine your thighs feel like 70 each pounds and its hard to actually use them, "how would you move on the bed/modify your movements? you have to rely more on your arms/lats/chest etc" to get a sense of the challenge- mainly the first two weeks are the biggest challenge I feel and then I regained alot of my thigh strength and it became easier. I do think though that actually maybe all this walker/crutch/certain transfers was related to my wrist pain so maybe take it easy during training. If you don't want to buy any of those things (wheelchair, walker, etc) beforehand then probably your regular upper body workout is fine. See LL videos for how we use the wheelchair/walker/crutches, we don't quite use them the way some people might think (at least for example you use the crutches much differently than people with casts on one leg use crutches)

That being said, cyborg4life was an LLer and a bodybuilder (think he did tibias tho which should be easier in terms of pain I feel) and I think his athleticism helped him overall despite having thicker calves

If you end up not going with Paley and instead up using a clicking device like gnail with Guichet or Giotikas, I will say that a PT in Athens told me that clicking is harder if your muscles are bigger

The other thing I'll say is this first week or so your quads will be swollen after the surgery, which makes it painful and uncomfortable to sit in the wheelchair for some people. If my thighs were even bigger, I have to think it would be even more uncomfortable

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Absolutely.

My surgery is in a good time period away, and i'm stretching to be able to do the splits , front and lateral - as much as i can safely do with a reliable YT channel. All i am trying to do now, is stretch, and work on balance, posture / get rid of my current duck ass. I want to arrive for the surgery extremely flexible.

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Would you recommend those portable dip machines just two bars you can put on the floor at a height of like  80cm and do dips on? Getting up and down / dips seems to be a huge part of it.

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to be honest with you I agree with SpeedDialer except the upper body strength. I mean you can still work that out sure but it is not necessary in my opinion. The transferring is more of an adaption thing because all of a sudden you need to use different muscles to move around. I am skin and bones very low weight with no muscles at all (aaalmost like Luang Pho Yai by now haha , google it, and yes you will lose more weight) and I had zero troubles adapting, I think adapting was one of the easiest parts of LL and I got the hang out of most things on surgery day. For femurs the only thing that will be tricky in the beginning, but I think your physique is not related to this, is standing up if you sit low (toilet etc). that is because you push yourself up with your arms but if you have to grab the handles of the crutch from low your shoulder joints are too far up to be able to easily create momentum/force to pull yourself up. You will find ways to cope with that, like having one hand on something else or I like to put the crutch kinda like a bit behind/diagonally me to have a better angle with my shoulders. It's tbh the only tricky transfer thing.

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Quote from: RealLostSoul on October 20, 2022, 08:51:40 AMto be honest with you I agree with SpeedDialer except the upper body strength. I mean you can still work that out sure but it is not necessary in my opinion. The transferring is more of an adaption thing because all of a sudden you need to use different muscles to move around. I am skin and bones very low weight with no muscles at all (aaalmost like Luang Pho Yai by now haha , google it, and yes you will lose more weight) and I had zero troubles adapting

Yeah actually screw it, you might be right. Lower total body weight is probably more important (most important factor aside from flexibility). There is a 6 foot (his original height was less) patient in Athens now (know him?   ) and he is like 125 pounds and because of his low weight he probably just doesn't even need that much upper body strength

I'm not sure whether to recommend the dipping stand/machine to OP, it is probably a good idea and it does train all the right muscles, I'm just a bit worried if it causes wrist pain for him right before the surgery then I'd regret that recommendation

And I wonder if my total body weight was just lower if I would not be having this wrist pain (which is not that bad, only flares up during certain movements but I feel maybe could have been avoided)